scarcely more helpful, even though they all mention the name James LeTort. Our early historian, Rupp, was accurate as far as he went. In a footnote he says, "James LeTort was a French Huguenot . . . he lived on or near the banks of the Susquehanna within the present limits of Lancaster County in 1719." But

County to modern times. This group of French Huguenots settled in Landau near the Rhine, where they resided for two years. Then they moved to a small adjacent village named Steinweiler. Here their son Philip Fiere was born in 1687. The father, Daniel Fiere, died that same year leaving his wife, Marie

Lancaster County. It is another French family who was to give us hundreds of descendants, that of Marie Ferree. She and her husband were Huguenots who, like the Le- torts, had to leave their homeland in 1686. They moved first to the Palatinate, but the French invaded and burnt the Palatinate in 1689. Marie

/Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Steinman, George. Title: Ann Henry : Lancaster County's woman treasurer / by George Steinman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Henry, Ann Wood, 1732-1798. Women--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--Biography. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th century

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In

Rose, a member of the Lancaster bar, so it was in that city that Ann grew up and met and married William Henry, a young man who was head of a large gun manufacturing estab- lishment and active in the life of the community. William Henry was born May 19, 1729, in Chester County, the son of Scotch

MARION WALLACE RENINGER ANN MOORE & MARY DICKSON It may come as a pleasant surprise to many citizens of Lancaster who have urged that more women be appointed or elected to positions in local, state or national government, when they learn that two of the heads of our Lancaster postoffice, in the